X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <489C62E9.2020604@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:14:49 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080723 Remi/2.0.0.16-1.fc5.remi Lightning/0.8 Thunderbird/2.0.0.16 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: bash builtin "test" kills bash on Win 2003 Server R2 x64 (some hardware) References: <2AF7DD0CE564C24EBACDABFAE55CC642042863D3@srv.odcnet.local> <489B470D.3000004@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com tmcd wrote: > On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Larry Hall (Cygwin) >> But leaving that aside for the moment, perhaps you have a a >> corrupted '/bin/[.exe'. Yes, it's just a WAG that really shouldn't >> be an issue but given your unique environment, maybe it's worth >> checking. > > I don't have the original note handy, but I thought it was of the form > if [ ... ] > As the subject line noted, [ is a shell builtin in bash (and I think > even in sh of recent decades), so I don't see how it could be affected > by corruption of anything other than /bin/bash.exe. > > If the original code was > if /bin/test ... > or > if /bin/[ ... ] > then it would be likelier. > No argument here. I also doubt that it has anything to do with [.exe but since the behavior reported doesn't make allot of sense, I thought of it as a pathological case that's easy to check. I still suspect that it has more to do with the environment than with bash/Cygwin. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/